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pycentral doesn't remove empty directories when upgrading a package

Bug #201204 reported by Philippe Normand on 2008-03-11

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	python-central (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: python-central

pycentral 0.5.63ubuntu1 doesn't correctly upgrade packages. If my package provides an egg-info with package version (like foo-0.4.5.egg-info and foo-0.4.6.egg-info in new package version), the foo-0.4.5.egg-info remains (but is empty). That directory should be removed as the use of 2 egg-info directories can confuse setuptools/pkg_resources.

Removing the package and installing the new version works but a simple package upgrade fails.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/python-central

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote on 2008-03-12:

do you have a package as an example?

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Philippe Normand (philn) wrote on 2008-03-12:

elisa 0.3.4-2 on hardy

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Philippe Normand (philn) wrote on 2008-03-12:

sample package to test the upgrade of 0.3.4 to 0.3.5 Edit (434.4 KiB, application/x-debian-package)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-03-12:

This bug was fixed in the package python-central - 0.6.0ubuntu2

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python-central (0.6.0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * pycentral pkgprepare: Properly remove directories not found anymore
    in the new version of the package. LP: #201204.
  * dh_pycentral: Rename versioned .pth and .egg-info files, removing the
    python version unless DH_PYCENTRAL matches `norename'.
  * Warn about differing trees before moving files to the shared area.

-- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:29:45 +0100